Housemaid Collection

Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye
A quite wonderful German postcard illustrating the Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye! Date: circa 1910s

The Kitchen Maid, 1651, by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). Dutch painter. The Kitchen Maid, 1651. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Photographs of housemaids and secretaries workwear
Photographs of new housemaids and secretaries workwear, women working in trousers. Captioned, Mind work? not in these-!: Flannelled housemaids and secretaries: an idea from the States'. Date: 1911

Caricature illustration of flustered Cook and assertive Housemaid, by Stan Terry. Captioned, Facts are Stranger than Fiction'

A fine townhouse on Angell Road, Brixton - Angell Town was an estate of houses for the wealthy laid out in the 1850's and 1860's with Wiltshire Road its main axis. Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Zebra Fire Grate Polish. 1902

The Archetypal Housemaid. Date: 1901

Kathleen Leigh Hunt is walking upstairs in Hyde Park Place, London, when a phantom housemaid appears, walking ahead of her and vanishing at the top of the stairs Date: July 1884

Actress Miss Gertrude Elliott (1874-1950), later wife of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson in the role of housemaid Peggy in Mice and Men. Date: 1902

HOUSEMAID WITH BROOM
A French housemaid in a mob cap and long skirts rests a moment from her sweeping with one hand on her hip Date: circa 1835

COOK AND HOUSEMAID
Cook and housemaid in a French kitchen : a welcome cuppa while the joint cooks on the range and the cat waits for its share of scraps

SERVANTS AT TABLE
Servants at table in the kitchen - a manservant, the cook and a housemaid Date: 1887

SERVING MORNING TEA
A maid brings an early pot of tea to her mistress as she lies in bed Date: 1904

MAID BRINGS BREAKFAST
Le petit dejeuner du matin The housemaid brings the young mistress her breakfast in bed Date: 1910

MAID SWEEPING
A Victorian housemaid brushes a step Date: circa 1870

MAID BRINGS FLOWERS
A Frenchwoman indicates to her housemaid the precise position in which she would like her to place a bowl of flowers, and please, try not to spill it... Date: 1929

DICKENSIAN HOUSEMAID
A London housemaid of Dickens time - the Little Marchioness from his novel The Old Curiosity Shop Date: 1840

NOT IRISH
Are you not Irish ? Och, no, Maam, Im Cornwall sure ! Date: 1849

A postcard photograph from a young housemaid in Wraysbury, Berkshire. She is standing in front of an ivy-clad wall, possible the house of her employer? Date: circa 1909

Household Staff - Upper Middle Class
A truly superb photograph of British Small Country Household Staff of the 1910s - Upper Middle Class (from left to right)

Technological advances of Home Heating - from coal to gas
The Advantages offered by the advances in Home Heating systems, shifting from coal to gas - the housemaid sends the chimney sweep away as her new gas boiler makes no soot and saves work and worry

Greetings card in the shape of a dustpan and brush with a picture of a housemaid and her suitor. Date: circa 1890s

The Waste of it! by John Hassall
Maid feeling exhausted after running up and down with jugs of water instead of using the tap! Date: 1906

A portly lady is laced into her corset by her maid Date: 1921

Housemaid at Southwold, Suffolk
Housemaid (Florence Fish) to the Auerbach family, seen here at Southwold, Suffolk, where they went for their holidays for several years. Date: circa 1907

Misfitz Dolls - Housemaid. early 20th century

Advertisement, Sapolio Washing-Up Soap
Advertisement for Sapolio Washing-Up Soap, for cleaning all the utensils. circa 1935

Notes on Etiquette - Greeted with a Kiss. Nothing more readily conduces to a pleasant visit than a kindly, hearty greeting. Date: 1908

A High Class Chinese Lady and her Servant
A High Class Chinese Lady pictured with her Servant. Date: circa 1905

Housemaid decorating the table with a vase of flowers. Color
Housemaid decorating the table with a vase of flowers. Engraving of La Ilustraci??n Artistica, 1889. Colored

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Bobby the Policeman. late 19th century

Butchers boy and housemaid on a comic Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Policeman and housemaid on a comic Christmas card. circa 1890s

Maid with Tray
An Edwardian housemaid hurries along the vast hallway of an Edwardian Country House carrying a tray of edibles for her masters. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Dusting a Staircase
An Edwardian housemaid dusts the elaborate balustrade of a huge staircase. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Costume / Housemaid
A London housemaid, sweeping the steps wears a plain, plum- coloured, unadorned gown with white collar, apron, cuffs & cap. Date: circa 1870

Scrubbing Woodwork
A French housemaid scrubs down the woodwork using Hudsons powdered soap and a bowl of hot water Date: 1878

Educated Housemaid
Mary explains that the word Salve on the doormat is Latin for Please to wipe your feet Date: 1893

Cartoon, Walking past an accident. Its a housemaid who was hit by a taxi. Oh, as if the servant problem wasn t bad enough already ! Date: 1919

Housemaid
Young girl with a mop dressed in the housemaids clothes. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: circa 1908

Advertisement for Acme gas stoves, by Arden Hill & Co, Birmingham. A maid tells Mr Soot that his services aren t needed any more. Date: early 20th century

Poster advertising Chivers Carpet Soap - sixpence per ball, prized in royal households. Date: early 20th century

Saturday to Monday by Frederick Fenn and Richard Pryce
Promotional postcard for Saturday to Monday by Frederick Fenn & Richard Pryce. First produced at St. Jamess Theatre, 14th April 1904. Artist: Albert Morrow

Bradfords Victress-Vowell washing machine
A maid uses Bradfords " Victress-Vowell" washing machine. Date: 1923

Womens costumes of the first half of the 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Sarcastic take on the Rigours of war on Home Front - WW1
WW1 - Sarcastic take on the Rigours of war on Home Front by Phyllis Spence. (from left) Standard Dress the Lady of the house horrified by the standardised form of ladies dress encouraged during WW1

Suffragette Domestic Servant, Pankhurst. A young housemaid reclines on a sofa saying, I cut my little finger and I must take it very easy in case it hurts me anymore

Tommys Pet. The soldier and the housemaid. Date: circa 1905

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